Common Dandelion. June 2017

Performance-based Installation June 2017 Falmouth University

In collaboration with cellist: Oak Matthias www.oakmatthias.com

A performance of the marginalised and often overlooked, a humble weed.

Taking a photograph every minute over thirteen days allows the work to evolve as nature takes its course. The finished time lapse of the dandelion clock becomes a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life and death.

Oak created a structured improvisational piece with the Common Dandelion as its muse. His cello intensifies fleeting moments and enhances the melancholic performance. Jo and Oaks collaboration pays tribute to a normally inconspicuous metamorphosis.

Performance-based Installation July 2018 Heligan Gardens

100:UNEARTH

WILDWORKS

Common Dandelion performs alongside musicians from Wildworks as part of the 100:UNEARTH production at Lost Gardens of Heligan. Wildworks explores the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice when a dream of a happy return to normality is shattered and the great Lord of Death continues to reap his harvest.

“Lost Gardens of Heligan is a place where growth and decay co-exist. A place full of promise. A Place that teaches us the invaluable lesson. Death is inevitable. Love goes on, endlessly regenerating itself…..”

Mercedes Kemp Artistic Lead and Writer. WILDWORKS

Common Dandelion. June 2017

Performance-based Installation June 2017 Falmouth University

In collaboration with cellist: Oak Matthias www.oakmatthias.com

A performance of the marginalised and often overlooked, a humble weed.

Taking a photograph every minute over thirteen days allows the work to evolve as nature takes its course. The finished time lapse of the dandelion clock becomes a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life and death.

Oak created a structured improvisational piece with the Common Dandelion as its muse. His cello intensifies fleeting moments and enhances the melancholic performance. Jo and Oaks collaboration pays tribute to a normally inconspicuous metamorphosis.

Performance-based Installation July 2018 Heligan Gardens

100:UNEARTH

WILDWORKS

Common Dandelion performs alongside musicians from Wildworks as part of the 100:UNEARTH production at Lost Gardens of Heligan. Wildworks explores the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice when a dream of a happy return to normality is shattered and the great Lord of Death continues to reap his harvest.

“Lost Gardens of Heligan is a place where growth and decay co-exist. A place full of promise. A Place that teaches us the invaluable lesson. Death is inevitable. Love goes on, endlessly regenerating itself…..”